04-02-2010, 02:25 PM
John Bevilaqua Wrote:Send a note to James Richards for his explanation on Spartacus Education. James and I do things the old fashioned way, by going out and talking to principals in the case. He does it in person for the most part. In this case it was Roy Hargraves who was a consultant to Oliver Stone on JFK who first related this to Mary Ferrell. Mary once called him "her most valuable and trusted inside informant." Hargraves also planted a bomb under the bleachers at a MLK, Jr. speech site for his paymasters, the White Supremacists.
James Richards corroborated the role of Hargraves in the JFK hit and his position as a person "in the know" independently using his list of trusted informants from the Miami SOF community and elsewhere. Richards also corroborated Hargraves' identification of Harold B. Chait as the CIA bagman sending money to the South Florida SOFs over several years from Boston Metals Processing Company, the Ulius Amoss and Carl Coon front organization that purchased Gram Trade Intl. Robert Maxwell from The Bank of Maryland, a little know Iran-Contra whistle blower, confirmed that BMPC and Baldt Anchor and Chain were CIA proprietaries used for decades by the CIA for money laundering purposes via the Bank of Maryland where he was a Trust Officer. None of this was captured on film however. as if it ever could be. Hargraves also confirmed the role of a Pioneer Fund operative as the organizer of the shooters in the JFK hit as well without knowing that he was even from The Pioneer Fund as well. That person is allegedly part of the Xe management team right now. Hargraves thought that Chait was providing money from his wife instead of via The Bank of Maryland. Why people think that "Film at Eleven" is a pre-requisite for evidence is totally beyond me. But to each his own. More time has been wasted in trying to interpret photos taken through the leaves and reach firm conclusions about the identity of shooters than you will ever know. Yet another LaBrea Tarpit of the JFK hit. I trust James Richards and his sources, and I firmly believe Mary Ferrell's characterization of Hargraves as a reliable witness and Robert Maxwell had no reasons to distort the truth about either Iran-Contra or about BMPC or Baldt. Robert Emmett Johnson enjoyed an extended career as a hitman from the late 1950's in Latin America right through Archbishop Omar Romero (was it?) in El Salvador for WACL while he was saying Mass. Johnson, Oswald and Hemming followed similar career paths right through the MKULTRA University.
Johnson was also cited in The Fish is Red as an associate of "Raoul" from Montreal by Bill Turner whom I believe also linked James Earl Ray with Johnson, Raoul and the MLK hit, yet another unsolved Civil Rights Case from the 1960's.
Neither James Richards nor myself are to be considered armchair researchers who rely only on words typed into someone else's 3rd party manuscripts or photos subject to numerous contradictory interpretations. We much prefer telephonic voice communications or face to face interviews with trusted sources and street level investigations and personal experience which is sadly lacking in the JFK research community in my honest opinion. This is not an indictment of you Mark since I hardly know you and what methods you have utilized and what original research you have done. Just me on my soapbox.
Thanks for your reply John.
I respect James and his diligence and I know from reading your posts that you are also diligent, but my gut feeling (that's all I'm going on) is that you, James and many others are diligently digging in the wrong direction--insofar as JFK is concerned.
Robert Johnson's alleged involvement in the demise of MLK and Trujillo doesn't confirm his status as a shooter in Dealey Plaza. As far as I can see he hasn't been accused of being a shooter in either of those events, or any others, and James has only stated that he suspects Johnson was present in DP, which is a long way from being a shooter.
I doubt those who planned DP would have trusted those Interpen guys as shooters. They might have been there as background scenery or to participate in some half-assed caper in the event the assassination had to be aborted at a point so late that alternative patsies would be required. Either way, they were separated by many layers from the real perpetrators.